Abstract
Fire resistance performance in steel building is very important for sustaining structural stability during a fire. However, the fire performance has been evaluated by fire test with only one length of the H-section made of an ordinary strength structural steel, such as SS 400 or SM 400. These have the same yield strength, but SM 400 has a better weldability. Therefore, the determination of fire protective materials can be difficult when the H-section made of SS 400 and SM 400 is applied into columns having different lengths are changed. In this paper, an evaluation was conducted to suggest a new guideline for the fire resistance of H-section built with an ordinary strength steels such as SS 400 and SM 400 and having variance of lengths. The results revealed the H-section made of SM 400 showed a little better fire resistance performance. Also, the longer the length of column, the less the fire resistance. Therefore, a new guideline is required to compensate the fire resistance of longer column than that from fire tested.
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